Therefore I should be getting great speed when downloading from Catchup Plus.

The LAN cable/connection is not the problem either when I plug in the same LAN cable from Explora V1 into my Laptop I get close to 100Mbps. I suspect the other posters are correct the Download Servers especially for HD is just not fast enough, which is ridiculous since this is local bandwidth number one and secondly this is suppose to be a "premium" product offering... #thisguy